However, the survey’s #2 film, “The Empire Strikes Back,” is not quite a perennial of best-movies-ever lists, nor is #7 “Back to the Future.”

A recent BFI Sight & Sound poll also put Kane first, and even had five and a half of the same top ten as Film School Rejects (Sight & Sound had the first two “Godfather” films as one entity.)

The Film School Rejects survey was of 37 critics and four filmmakers, and the site editors described the electorate as skewing younger. I didn’t participate in the survey but for the record, I’d have voted “Casablanca” #1.